For
the last several decades, the US
government has openly funded, supported, and armed various terrorist networks
throughout the world to forward an agenda of destabilization and proxy war.
It is not a secret, nor a conspiracy theory, America arms bad guys.

Given the insidious history of the
American empire and its creation and fostering of terrorist regimes across the
globe, it should come as no surprise that the overwhelming majority of
politicians would refuse to sign on to a law that requires them to ‘Stop Arming Terrorists.’ And, that
is exactly what’s happened.

H.R.608 – Stop Arming Terrorists Act
was introduced by Rep. Gabbard, Tulsi [D-HI] on January 23 of this
year. The bill doesn’t have any crazy strings attached and its original
cosponsors are a mix of Republicans and Democrats — highlighting that it
transcends party lines.

“For years, our government has
been providing both direct and indirect support to these armed militant groups,
who are working directly with or under the command of terrorist groups like
Al-Qaeda and ISIS,
all in their effort and fight to overthrow the Syrian government,”
Gabbard said in an
interview earlier this year.

The text of the bill is simple. It
merely states that it prohibits the use
of federal agency funds to provide covered assistance to:

(1)
Al Qaeda, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
(ISIL), or any individual or group that is affiliated with, associated with,
cooperating with, or adherents to such groups; or

(2)
the government of any country that the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence (ODNI) determines has, within the most recent 12 months, provided
covered assistance to such a group or individual.

The only thing this bill does is
prohibit the US government from giving money and weapons to people who want to
murder Americans and who do murder innocent men, women, and children across the
globe. It is quite possibly the simplest and most rational bill ever proposed
by Congress. Given its rational and humanitarian nature, one would think that
representatives would be lining up to show their support. However, one would be
wrong.

After nearly 5 months since its introduction,
only 13 of the 535 members of Congress have signed on as co-sponsors. What this
lack of support for the bill shows is that the federal government is addicted
to funding terror and has no intention of ever stopping it.

To add insult to treason and murder, Senator Rand Paul [R-KY] introduced
this same legislation
in the Senate. He currently has zero
cosponsors.

Given the overwhelming lack of support
for a bill that simply asks the government to stop giving money to people who
behead children and video it, it should come as no surprise that Donald Trump signed hundreds of
billions of dollars in weapons deals with other countries who also fund these
people.

As Americans bicker over Trump’s bogus
and non-existent Russian scandal, he’s signing a deal worth hundreds of
billions of dollars with the largest
state sponsor of terror in the world — ensuring decades of future wars and
the continuation of the cycle of terrorism.

What’s more is the fact that less than
one week after publicly reprimanding Qatar for terrorism, President Trump
signed off on the sale of $12 billion in weapons to the country he referred to as a “funder of terrorism.” This move, in Trump’s own stance, makes
him a de facto funder of terrorism now.

What this lack of support for the bills
and the recent moves to arm the terrorist regimes illustrates is the fact that
the US has no intention of ever stopping terrorism. Trump, just like Obama and
Bush before him, will continue to foster the growth of terrorism to enrich
those who profit from war.

Terrorism
is necessary for the state. War, is the health of the state.

Without the constant fear mongering
about an enemy who ‘hates our freedom’, Americans begin questioning things.
They challenge the status quo and inevitably desire more freedom. However, when
they are told that boogeymen want to kill them, they become immediately
complacent and blinded by their fear.

While these boogeymen were once mostly
mythical, since 9/11, they have been funded and supported by the US to the
point that they now pose a very real threat to innocent people everywhere. As
the recent attacks in the UK illustrate, ISIS is organizing and spreading. Even
the terrorists in the UK had ties to the British government who allowed them
to freely travel and train with ISIS-linked groups because those groups
were in opposition to Muammar Gaddafi,
who the West wanted to snub out.

The radical change that is necessary to
shift this paradigm back to peace is for people to wake up to the reality that
no matter which puppet is in the White House, the status quo remains unchanged.

Trump is proving that he can lie to get
into power and his supporters ignore it. If you doubt this fact, look at what Trump
did by calling out Saudi Arabia for their role in 9/11 and their support
for terror worldwide prior to getting elected. He now supports these terrorists
and his constituency couldn’t care less.

This madness has to stop. Humanity has
to stop being fooled by rhetoric read from teleprompters by puppets doing the
bidding of their masters.

Please share this article with your
friends and family to show them how their supposed ‘leaders’ — except for a few
good ones — are content with funding the enemy, laying waste to rights, and
condone the murder of innocence.

Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged
veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the
NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of
government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an
independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream
networks around the world. Agorist is also the Editor at Large at the Free
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